BIG DEAL; Like Mother, Like Daughter

By WILLIAM NEUMAN

Published: August 13, 2006

MARTHA STEWART and her daughter, Alexis, would seem to share a fondness for the modernist designs of the architect Richard Meier. Martha Stewart was an early buyer of a condo in one of the two green-glass buildings designed by Mr. Meier at West and Perry Streets in the Far West Village.

Now, Alexis Stewart has worked out a deal that will allow her to combine three units into a triplex apartment at a third Meier-designed building on West Street, at the corner of Charles Street, according to a person familiar with the transaction. The combined listing price for the three units, which have a total of 6,900 square feet, was about $19 million.

Alexis Stewart is the co-host, with Jennifer Koppelman Hutt, of a talk show on Sirius satellite radio called ''Whatever With Alexis and Jennifer,'' and she has appeared on television with her mother on ''The Apprentice: Martha Stewart.'' She has also run a motel and two gyms in the Hamptons.

In 2002, Martha Stewart paid $6.1 million for a duplex penthouse in the northern Perry Street building. But Ms. Stewart never moved in. Instead, she sold the apartment, for $6.67 million, in 2004, a short time before beginning a federal prison sentence for lying to investigators about her sale of ImClone stock.

The Perry Street towers were sold as raw space, which the buyers had to fit out. The Charles Street tower is different because its interior spaces were also designed by Mr. Meier.

Sales at the building had been slow, but they picked up earlier this year. Public records show that sales of 21 of the 31 units have closed. At least five more are reportedly in contract, including Ms. Stewart's three units.

Kathleen M. Sloane, a senior vice president of Brown Harris Stevens who has worked in the past with both of the Stewarts, said she could not comment. Attempts to reach Alexis Stewart were unsuccessful.